<p>newmassdad, I think all southerners should spend some time up north as well. Learn a different way of thinking, different weather:) As a southern transplant who has now spent almost 30 years in the Boston area, I think we should all spend some time in different parts of the country. College is a great time to do that.</p>
<p>I think ** Hopkins ** deserves a hard look.</p>
<p>Dogwood, Agreed. Having lived on both coasts, and the north and south, I can say from first hand experience that sharp regional differences still exist. And they often are not what you expect, for better (mostly) and worse.<br>
But, one will be a better, more understanding citizen for experiencing and understanding this.</p>
<p>Hopkins deserves a lot of great things but it is not less selective than Tufts..isn't that a criterion listed in the OP?
Allmusic is correct to allow that someone looking at Tufts might have a stretch to make culturally at some of the colleges mentioned in my post but LACs are looking in most cases for diversity in every form if they can get it and for balance male and female which can get tricky. I would LOVE to see more regions sending students to Furman for instance, and I can testify to the hard sciences, the outstanding grad school admissions and the arts offered there. However, Vandy and Emory already have passed the regional college period and are firmly into the national in student bodies and so it is really not a hard adjustment believe me to take a good look at the booming New South cities of Nashville, Atlanta, Greenville, and other places like Rhodes in Memphis if you want a great economy and an influx of new jobs and great art scenes to keep the college town bustling and full of places for hands on learning. Boston is like no other city and I love it too but the weather in South Carolina or Nashville..well, sunshine does lift ones endorphins folks. I was talking up Nashville to a guy from Michigan recently and he told me his wife wouldn't retire there because of tornados. say what? But they drove into one in Nashville one day and also there really was a tornado that damaged downtown Nashville a few years back...</p>
<p>OP wants schools just like Tufts but not in Boston. Selectivity was not a point except to say that student's stats would not support HYPSM.</p>
<p>WashU St Louis, Hopkins, Emory have been the closest mentioned so far. Having a Freshman at Tufts, I can tell you we looked at a lot of similar schools...........</p>
<p>Have you looked at Providence College? The city of Providence is an up and coming city, although I don't think PC is in a particularly good part of town. I do know the college does have bus service to other parts of the downtown area and you have a number of colleges right in the area. Plus, you are just an hour from Boston. My younger daughter really fell in love with it.</p>
<p>Brown would be a closer fit than PC!</p>
<p>Rice basically is Tufts except that it's in Houston, isn't on a hill, and almost never gets snow. </p>
<p>Georgetown has a similar class profile, but the personalities of the students seem to be pretty different. Northwestern is larger but has a similar academic profile and urban/suburban setting near a major city. JHU & WUSTL I don't know enough about to comment on.</p>
<p>Emory and URochester.</p>
<p>You could consider other NESCAC schools: Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Colby, Middlebury, etc.</p>
<p>Tufts HAS football. And where's kk to comment on Northwestern vs. Tufts?</p>
<p>Did you ever think of her going to Tufts and PRETENDING she's far from home?</p>
<p>Yep. And she will apply. But the concern is that the Tufts experience will be similar to her Boston suburban high school, writ large. And, judging by the number of her classmates who apply and attend, this may be true.</p>
<p>I went to BC, and my parents lived about 35 min. away in Franklin, MA. I felt plenty far away from home, and almost never went home on weekends. I'm sure there will be some students from suburban Boston, but Tufts seems to have a very international flavor to it. It just seems odd to be looking for a place LIKE Tufts, when Tufts is right there.</p>
<p>Reminds me of those Hollywood anecdotes about producer, director, and casting people sitting around a conference table discussing the need for a "Harvey Korman type," (or fill in the blank whith any other actor) for a certain role. And after several names are considered and shot down, somebody gets a brainstorm and says, "How about Harvey Korman?"</p>
<p>Yeah, but Franklin is in the sticks....</p>
<p>JUST KIDDING.</p>
<p>You make a good point.</p>
<p>Drb - I am a senior at Tufts from Brazil. If you can believe it, two other kids who graduated with me in Sao Paulo go to Tufts with me. But I never see them unless I specifically want to. Seems to be the same thing for a good friend of mine from Concord, MA (and there are about six-plus kids from h.s. at Tufts). I don't think that should let your D stop her from going to a school that is otherwise a perfect fit.</p>
<p>Davidson/Emory/William & Mary would be good matches.</p>
<p>S is now living 30 minutes walk from home. There are 10 other kids from his school at the college from his class alone, and several more from previous classes. He hardly sees them as they have different interests, both academic and extra-curricular. He's bonded with his suitemates, has many friends on his floor and in a variety of activities and classes. Even though he occasionally comes home, college is a whole another world.</p>